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mentation projects and move all their documentation to MDN Web Docs[1]hers.

History

In 2005, Mozilla Corporation started the project under the name Mozilla Developer Center.[2] Mozilla Corporation still funds servers and employs staff working on the projects.

The initial content for the website was provided by DevEdge, for which the Mozilla Foundation was granted a license by AOL.[3][2] The site now contains a mix of content migrated from DevEdge and mozilla.org, as well as original and more up-to-date content.[4][5] Documentation was also migrated from XULPlanet.com.

On Oct 3, 2016, Brave browser added Mozilla Developer Network as one of its default search engines options.[6]

In 2017, MDN Web Docs became the unified documentation of web technology for Google, Samsung, Microsoft, and Mozilla.[1][7] Microsoft started redirecting pages from Microsoft Developer Network to MDN.[8]

In 2019, Mozilla started Beta testing a new reader site for MDN Web Docs written in React (instead of jQuery; some jQuery functionality was replaced with Cheerio library).[9] The new site was launched on December 14, 2020.[10] Since December 14, 2020, all editable content is stored in a Git repository hosted on GitHub, where contributors open pull requests and discuss changes.[11]

On January 25 2021,[12] the Open Web Docs (OWD) organization was launched as a non-profit fiscal entity to collect funds for MDN development.[13] As of March 2023, the top financial contributors of OWD are Google, Microsoft, Igalia, Canva, and JetBrains.[14]

In March 2022, MDN launched a redesign with a new logo[15] and a paid subscription called MDN Plus.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Tung, Liam (2017-10-19). "Developers rejoice: Microsoft, Google, Mozilla are putting all their web API docs in one place". ZDNet. Archived from the original on October 21, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Mitchell Baker (2005-02-23). "DevMo and DevEdge updates". Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  3. ^ "About". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
  4. ^ "DevEdge". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
  5. ^ Deb Richardson (2006-02-10). "Digging through the DevEdge archives". mozilla.dev.mdc. Google Groups. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  6. ^ "Brave Browser 0.12.3 Release Note". Github. Archived from the original on October 4, 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  7. ^ Knox, Dru (2017-10-18). "Building unified documentation for the web". Chromium Blog. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  8. ^ Erika Doyle Navara (2017-10-18). "Documenting the Web together". Windows Blogs. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  9. ^ R, Bhagyashree (2019-07-17). "Mozilla's MDN Web Docs gets new React-powered frontend, which is now in Beta". Packt Hub. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  10. ^ "Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  11. ^ "An update on MDN Web Docs' localization strategy – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Archived from the original on January 28, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  12. ^ "OWD Steering Committee call, 2021-01-20". GitHub. 2021-01-20. Archived from the original on 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-02-01. OWD will go public on Monday, January 25th.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  13. ^ "Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  14. ^ "Open Web Docs - Sponsors". opencollective.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  15. ^ "A new year, a new MDN". hacks.mozilla.org. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
  16. ^ "Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own". hacks.mozilla.org. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
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